PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 519, 520-AUG. 29, 30, 1949
Apportionment of
costs.
Repayment period.
53 Stat. 1194.
43U.S.C.J485h
(c), (d).
Establishment of
organization.
43U. S.C.§372et
seq.
Appropriation au-
thorized.
August 30, 1949
[I. R. 781]
IPublic Law 274]
Civil Aeronautics
Act of 1938, amend-
ment.
52 Stat. 980.
49U.S.C.§§421
426; Supp. II, § 421
note.
of silt, improvement of the general quality of the water, the preserva-
tion and propagation of fish and wildlife, and the provision and
improvement of recreational facilities), at an estimated cost of
$69,500,000, all in substantial accord with the recommendations made
in that certain report, dated July 15, 1949, of the regional director,
region IV, Bureau of Reclamation, entitled "Weber Basin project,
Utah".
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized to apportion equitably the costs
of constructing, operating, and maintaining (including therein
reasonable provision for replacement) the project works herein
authorized between, on the one hand, their flood control, recreational,
and fish and wildlife purposes and, on the other hand, their irrigation,
power, municipal, and other water-supply purposes. The former
allocations shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. The latter
allocations shall be reimbursable and returnable: Provided, That
general repayment obligations undertaken pursuant to subsections
(c) and (d) of section 9 of the Reclamation Act of 1939 may extend
over a period not exceeding sixty years.
SEC. 3. As a condition precedent to construction of any of the irri-
gation or drainage works herein authorized, there shall be established
an organization in the State of Utah with powers satisfactory to the
Secretary, including the power to tax property both real and personal
within its boundaries and the power to enter into a contract or con-
tracts with the United States for payment of reimbursable costs
allocated to irrigation, municipal water supply, and other miscel-
laneous purposes.
SEC. 4 . This Act shall be a supplement to the Federal reclamation
laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof
or supplementary thereto), the provisions whereof shall govern the
construction, operation, and maintenance of the Weber Basin project
except as otherwise herein provided.
SEC. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as
may be required to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Approved August 29, 1949.
[CHAPTER 5201
AN ACT
To amend title II of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title II of the
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding
at the end thereof a new section as follows:
" TSUPPLIES AND MATERIALS FOR ALASKA
"SEC. 207. When appropriations for any fiscal year for the Civil
Aeronautics Administration have not been made prior to the first
istrator of Civil Aeronautics may authorize such officer or officers
as may be designated by him to incur obligations for the purchase
and transportation of supplies and materials necessary to the proper
execution of the Administration's functions in Alaska in amounts
not to exceed 75 per centum of the amount that had been made
available for such purposes for the fiscal year then current, payments
of these obligations to be made from the appropriations for the next
succeeding fiscal year when they become available."
Approved August 30, 1949.
678
[63 STAT.
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